Scripto is an alternative to the ProofreadPage extension used
by Wikisource. It is based on Mediawiki but also on OpenLayers,
the software used to zoom and pan in OpenStreetMap.
The only website I have seen that uses Scripto is the U.K.
War Department papers, and in many ways it is more clumsy
than ProofreadPage. But there might be a few ideas that could
be worth picking up. Take a look.
The software is described at http://scripto.org/
As for reference installations, they mention
http://wardepartmentpapers.org/transcribe.php
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal
project that he's been working on for a long time:
http://www.unz.org/
It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which
hosted there, some externally.
Examples:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRevhttp://www.unz.org/Publication/Century
Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug
According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their
writings. A couple of examples of author pages:
http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHLhttp://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith
Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's
PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has
permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case,
there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I
haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a
research library for Wikipedians as well.
Cheers,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hello devs,
I am Aashish Mittal and am currently working on a project for creating an
'Book' extension for Wikisource/WikiBooks. There is a bug filed for this
feature (check bug 15071<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071>)
by the wikimedia community developers.
This extension would enable the users to group selected pages into logical
'books' and use these books as per their needs. We are currently working on
defining the scope of this project, but an initial thought to this project
defines the following deliverables for this extension:
1. Create a book
2. Page addition wizard (also containing search filters for finding
particular pages)
3. Import book metadata (where user can directly add set of pages from
his export list)
4. Export book metadata (export the book details containing all page
links to a file which can be saved by user, similar to MetaBooks)
5. Add to a book option for every page
6. Table of contents for a book
7. Read a book (navigate through pages or some kind of an ajax based
book reader)
8. Recent changes for each book
9. Create chapters
10. Arrange order of pages in a book
11. Protect/watchlist/move/delete all pages of a book
12. List books
13. Search for a book
14. Search in a book
15. Automatic Bookshelves, where the books of a wiki could be organized
according to their metadata (examples:
English<https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/en:Wikibooks:Departments>,
Portuguese <https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/pt:Wikilivros:Biblioteca>, ...)
This feature is an extension of
Collection<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection>and
BookManager <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BookManager> and
intends to add additional functionalities described above to them. It would
be great if I could get some suggestions from the Wikisource community
developers about their requirements, the features they would like to see
and any implementation ideas. I have started a
discussion<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Book_feature_for_Wiki…>on
Scriptorium for the same. Feel free to add your valuable suggestions
for
this project.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Aashish
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Aashish Mittal
Student at University of Mumbai
Yahoo: av_mittal(a)ymail.com
Gtalk: ashishmittal.mail(a)gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aashishmittal
Phone: +919930820950
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the
software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest
version.
The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week.
You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid
disruption and breakage.
More information:
* Announcement on the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/
* The announcement in other languages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement
Thank you for your understanding.
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
<gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Here is the accumulate by project family
http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wmcharts/wmchart0013.html Wikiquote,
Wikisource and Wikiversity are the winners.
2012/2/2 John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
> >>...
> >> What else are people seeing in their chosen languages that might be
> >> interesting? Anything surprising?
> >>
> >
> > No. Only a few examples where women are 15-25% of edits some days but in
> > small Wikipedias or sister projects. They are not representative.
>
> I think (hope..) you might find a high female participate rate even if
> you aggregate across all of the Wikisource projects.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg